Welcome to the Village/Town of Mount Kisco, NY: Recycling Information

Every person in the Village is responsible for separating recyclables from solid waste. Your garbage and rubbish containers should be insect, vermin and rodent proof. All containers should be durable, watertight, structurally strong, easily filled, emptied and cleaned and equipped with tight-fitting lids.

Property owners with bulk storage containers must maintain their containers at a location that has been approved by the Village Manager and Building Inspector. They must also ensure that all bulk containers have self-closing lids or have the lids closed at ALL TIMES. Owners of multi-tenanted buildings must also provide an educational program for the residents of the buildings on the matter in which source-separated materials are to be prepared for collection.

Recyclables (glass, plastic and metal) are picked up on Mondays for residents on a Monday-Thursday collection schedule and Tuesdays for residents on a Tuesday-Friday collection schedule. Do not bring these items to the curb.

Newspapers, Cardboard, Magazine & Junkmail are picked up for all residents on Wednesdays. Please place these items at the curb.

Glass:

Do Recycle	Don't Recycle	How
Clear, green or brownglass jars and bottles, any size	Glass that is not used for food or beverages such as light bulbs, drinking glasses, crystal, window and mirror glass, ceramic ware, kitchen cookware, pesticide/herbicide bottles, etc. Put these items in the garbage	Remove all caps. Discard plastic caps in the garbage. Place metal caps and rinsed glass jars and bottles in the same recycling bin with the plastic and metal containers. Labels need not be removed.

Plastics 1 and 2:

Do Recycle	Don't Recycle
Plastic containers coded 1 or 2 on the bottom, commonly used for food, beverages, detergents, household cleaners and shampoos.	Five-gallon plastic pails, foam plastic materials, film plastic, plastic bags and flower pots, regardless of their recycling code.

Metal Containers:

Do Recycle Don't Recycle How

Food and beverage cans, clean aluminum foil and trays and all empty aerosol cans. Conventional paint cans or metal containers that were filled with potentially hazardous materials such as pesticides, glues or solvents are not recyclable. Do not place bulk metal items like appliances at the curb. Containers should be rinsed out but labels need not be removed. Place them in the recycling bin with glass and plastic containers.

Corrugated Cardboard & Brown Paper Bags:

Do Recycle Don't Recycle How

Corrugated cardboard boxes and brown paper bags Waxed cardboard and gray cardboard (such as cereal, pizza boxes, tissue boxes and towel rollers, plastic and styrofoam packing materials are not recyclable. Please put these items in the garbage. Cardboard must be cleaned of excessive amounts of plastic adhesive tape. Flatten and tie boxes and bags with string or place all flattened corrugated boxes inside another corrugated cardboard box. Place all brown bags inside another brown bag. There is no need to remove staples.

Newspapers, Magazines, Junk Mail & Phone Books:

Do Recycle Don't Recycle How

All weekly and daily newspapers, including their glossy inserts. Recycle all outdated phone books, magazines, brochures, catalogs, colored and glossy periodicals and junk mail (letters, all types of envelopes, promotional advertisements, etc.) Don't place in plastic bags. Don't recycle paperback or hardcover book. Try donating books to a library or charity. Place these items in a brown paper bag, loose in the recycling bin or ties with twine.

New 15 Gallon blue recycling bins are available. If you do not have a recycling bin, you may pick on up at the Village Hall Tax Office located at 104 Main Street - $5.00 for each bin.

License Plate Recycling Program:

Old "Liberty" plates should be recycled. Cross out the plate numbers with a permanent marker and place the plates in your recycling bin. Forfurther information please log on to the DMV website at www.nysdmv.com.

Created by superuser. Last modified 2005-10-27 15:00:23.